In 2014, at the age of 75, I wrote this hymn as a witness of how, over many years, the Lord brought me to Himself. I set it to a tune to be sung as a solo but I plan to use a familiar tune, instead, so that it can be sung in corporate worship. It is a hymn all true...
From the survey last week, seven responses netted forty-nine words, including three of my own that were different than your lists. I asked for words from a Christian view that are important to our relationship with God and others. Over the weekend I wondered and...
BEGOTTEN is not a word used every day but one that all Christians should know as it speaks of our birth into the kingdom of God. The Old Testament has only a few references to this word concerning men who have begotten children. One reference in Psalm 2:7 and...
As simple as it may sound, I love the Lord’s Day because I love the Lord. It is, and has been for centuries, the day of celebration of the finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ. As our heavenly Father rested after His work of creation, and set aside the seventh day...
For the last few days I have thought what I could write to start a new decade. I had many things in mind but no sure direction. Are eight decades not enough to praise my Lord? There will not be enough time in this life. This morning, I am remembering yesterday ~ the...
“The mystery of grace teaches us that as we lose ourselves in the overwhelming greatness of redeeming love, humility becomes to us the consummation of everlasting blessedness and adoration.” Let us memorize and meditate on this statement by which Murray begins his...
In this last part of this last chapter of Beyond a Mere Christianity, we will look at how God has designed the other side of His arrows. Again we see Faith in Christ as the center ~ the heart of every Christian. We begin our relationship with Him as He has planned ~...
The KJV version only uses the word BEAUTY in the Old Testament Hebrew language. From Strong’s Concordance, we will compare different words in different verses. H8597 tiphʼârâh, tif-aw-raw beauty, splendour, glory; H6286; ornament (abstractly or concretely, literally...
“Oh, Lord, how long will you leave me helpless in a weary land." The Lord is good and has blessed me, but I was again feeling low and downtrodden. This scene years ago was one of my days of wandering in this wilderness. The feeling was unexplainable and very real. ...